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A poem by Gwendolyn Brooks came to me. “The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock.” I jolted in my seat at a possible connection. Brooks’s poem was written in response to the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. In the poem, the Defender sends a reporter to Little Rock to find out what on earth was wrong with the folks of Little Rock and how they could be so abusive and terrible to young students because of their skin color.
The Headlight Review is thrilled to announce the winner of our 2025 Anthony Grooms Short Fiction Prize: Waterfalls by Lois Wolfe.
The Headlight Review is thrilled to announce that the winner for the 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize is: Feminine Morbidity by Maya Williams.
The Headlight Review is thrilled to announce the finalists for our 2025 Anthony Grooms Short Fiction Prize.
The Headlight Review is thrilled to announce that the winner for the 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize is: Feminine Morbidity by Maya Williams.
A poem by Gwendolyn Brooks came to me. “The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock.” I jolted in my seat at a possible connection. Brooks’s poem was written in response to the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. In the poem, the Defender sends a reporter to Little Rock to find out what on earth was wrong with the folks of Little Rock and how they could be so abusive and terrible to young students because of their skin color.
Few garments carry as much cultural weight as the hoodie. First created in the 1930s by the brand Champion to meet athletes' needs for warmth and durability, the hoodie slowly became a marker of style, anonymity, suspicion, and resistance—often all at the same time. In The Hoodie: Identity, Power, Protest, a new exhibition at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), co-curators Dr. Regina N. Bradley and Dr. Laura Flusche examine the hoodie not just as a piece of clothing, but as a deeply political symbol shaped by race, class, geography, and history within the American South.
There’s so much about Jenny Erlingsson you don’t know. That’s probably because she’s a freshly minted novelist, author of the 2024 contemporary fiction title Her Part to Play. Before the book’s summer 2024 release, you would have needed to travel to Iceland to bump into Erlingsson in person, or you would have needed to be a part of her Milk and Honey collective of women writers.
A discussion between guest fiction editor Mary McMyne and Jennifer Givhan about her new book Salt Bones.
There’s so much about Jenny Erlingsson you don’t know. That’s probably because she’s a freshly minted novelist, author of the 2024 contemporary fiction title Her Part to Play. Before the book’s summer 2024 release, you would have needed to travel to Iceland to bump into Erlingsson in person, or you would have needed to be a part of her Milk and Honey collective of women writers.
A discussion between guest fiction editor Mary McMyne and Jennifer Givhan about her new book Salt Bones.
Jesse Graves’s first collection of poetry Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. More recently, Tennessee Landscape was celebrated with a tenth Anniversary edition, one that included new poems and an introduction from acclaimed poet Matthew Wimberley.
A review of The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf 2025) by Donika Kelly.
On the whole, evocative and daring, an uneasy dance between the sand and the sea, Strange Beach is an ever-transforming shore, a space of encounter between bodies and meaning, between history and the new.
